Tonight is the release at No-One Shop in London for Rasha Kahil’s XI and La Gueule du Monde. Rasha, who was recently featured in Look, is an artist from Beirut now based in London. XI and La Gueule du Monde is a publication of short erotic stories and photographs. For more information, or to order XI [...]
Category Archives: Writing
Monika – It’s about what is said
July 11, 2009 – 9:05 am
A mysterious new magazine called Monika appeared last week in London’s bookshops. What makes Monika so out of the ordinary is that it has been released anonymously. Published with no masthead or physical contract address, and with the byline following every article or spread simply stating “M.”, there is no indication of who is behind it, or [...]
A Companion Painting: Nickas on Nickas
April 15, 2009 – 3:21 pm
In an interview with independent art writer, curator and index Magazine founder Bob Nickas, Neo-Victorian time traveler David McDermott pictured himself and collaborator Peter McGough as “decorative oddities” — not so much accepted as tolerated in the art world of the 1980s. McDermott’s description said something about Nickas himself, whose admitted attraction to periphery genius [...]
Purple Fashion
March 27, 2009 – 4:00 pm
The Spring/Summer issue of Purple Fashion includes a story on Barack Obama, a candid interview with “French New Extremist” filmmaker Gaspar Noe, and enough glossy fashion photographs to wallpaper Robert Longo’s Manhattan studio (which, by the way, is also featured in the issue). Readers will recall Longo’s drawings from Dossier’s first issue, and the chance [...]
Ambrosial Imagery, Savory Prose: Two Food Blogs
March 26, 2009 – 3:32 pm
Luvin Spoonfuls Julie Miller and Mina Stone are two Brooklynites—the former working in media production and the latter a private chef and fashion designer. Their blog, Luvin Spoonfuls, combines Stone’s palate with Miller’s eye for layout; both have a keen sense of design. While the saying goes that a dish’s appearance means nothing if it [...]
Ben Greenman’s Postcard Project
November 11, 2008 – 5:07 pm
Brooklyn-based New Yorker editor Ben Greenman is looking for help with his new “highly fancy limited edition publication.” The book, Correspondences, is a collection of short stories written in epistolary form, and includes an unfinished story called “What He’s Poised to Do” that intentionally leaves gaps in the narrative. “The Man is staying in a [...]
Matthew Houck aka Phosphorescent
September 9, 2008 – 1:45 pm
I came across Matthew Houck in Doingbird magazine. They published one of his poems along with some photographs by Rachael Cassells. I was immediately taken by the poem Falling (Christmas in LA). It contains some beautiful passages, “Every day and every night / no breaks love / you just gotta push / straight on through / [...]
New York Tyrant
August 18, 2008 – 11:01 am
Sure, Granta’s been around a while, and The Paris Review is fine and well. But what about when you want to read something new? I mean, really new. So new that you’ve never heard of its contributors, and aren’t sure how to pronounce their names? There are a lot of small literary journals out there, [...]
Outsider Poet Comes Inside
July 22, 2008 – 1:35 pm
"Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate" was, at the end of last week, #9 on the New York Times 10 most e-mailed articles list. Apparently there is a large crossover between lovers of verse and readers of the Gray Lady. According to my poet world contact, Ryan is an “unsentimental choice.” He [...]
